It's really light. A good screen size for my work. (A compromise between 10hr battery of a netbook and screen of a full size laptop)Thank gawd I got one of the last Windows7 machines. Been working with 8 on non touch screen machines!!! Windows 8? DON'T DO IT!!!

Plenty stable enough for my work - Great price - Nice keyboard - So far has coped with brick dust, light rain, sub zero temperatures, Ethernet port being used over 10 times a day, generally being knocked about. Overall very happy with it...

Bad points:

If you need the Ethernet port, get ready for a fight if you want your cable back! The port has a spring loaded cover so it matches the profile of the case. Seriously, It's a two handed operation with the laptop on its side to get the cable out! I'm a network field engineer so plug onto this several times a day. I'm seriously going to get some araldite to stick it in the open position so it's like a normal port!!!

The mouse pad does some clever swiping and grabbing stuff. Drives me crazy. Haven't figured out how to turn it off yet! Wish it had separate mouse pad buttons.

Takes a little while to obtain an IP address compared to my other machines but we're talking seconds... (I'm being picky now!)

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